Perfectly Philly... ONE MORE TIME

I dont know if you have noticed, but ever now and then The Black Sports Guy seems to get 'pulled back in' to discussions about Philadelphia. In a way, its hard to avoid Philadelphia. Of the Black Sports Guy's two headed physique, one of us is actually FROM Philly, and the other spent over 5 years there in graduate school. So the city does mean something to us, and it is hard to avoid, especially since the place has pretty much ALWAYS been a little crazy (dont forget this is the city that had a mayor that ordered the BOMBING of a neighborhood in the 70s).

SO, here we go.... quickly now.

Philadelphia is outpacing the rest of the country, and most of the world, in murder this year. The count right now is slightly over 1 murder a day (I think its like 1.06).

There have been weekends where 11 people have been killed. So you could say there is a violence problem in the Declaration of Independence City aka The City Of Brotherly Love -what a fucking JOKE.

The naturaly things public officials are blaming for the murders (and crime) is, of course, poverty and lack of jobs/opportunities (and behind closed doors "those damn black fools").

So, how are they taking care of the problems? By closing down ALL of the city's psychics, tarot card readers and astrologers (I'm assuming palm readers are also getting closed).

See apparently in Philly the logical thing to do is to create even more jobless people, create more poverty within a community, send more people out looking for work in a city where there is already a shortage of jobs. They are doing this in accord with a law that is 30 years old, and many of the shops they are closing have been open for over 10 - 20 years. Most of the shops are/were fun tourist attractions and most importantly THEY WERE NOT BOTHERING ANYBODY AT ALL.

Now behind this sudden activity is the wonderful Philadelphia Police Force who were said to be the folks who had to tell public officials about the 20 year old law.

GOT IT? The police, in a city where people are getting gunned down at a rate of ONE A DAY, somehow had time to literally find a law, find a few public officials, and begin forcing people out of businesses they have owned for over a decade. Because in the end, isnt that how you slow down the rate of crime and murder.

Philadelphia needs ITS COLLECTIVE CIVIC BRAIN LOBOTOMIZED AND START ALLLL over WHAT AN Embarrassment! (Totally Sad Comment: The fortune tellers never saw this coming.. ROFL.. LOL.. thats not funny)

MSNBC ARTICLE

Finally Philly! I've been screaming about this for WEEKS

You wanna know why you should be reading this blog? Wanna know why this is a 'bookmark' you should have near the top of your bookmarks?

WHY?

Because THE BLACK SPORTS GUY CAN SEE.. we have four eyes and we can see clearly. We dont mix words and we wonder about and actually care about society as a whole. Everyone.. except of course any "BLANK"-fundamentalist.. you know how we feel about them.

SO anyway.. I've been SCREAMING about the insane murder rate in Philadelphia for about 4-5 weeks. Sometime back when I read about a woman killing her child by using it as a bat against her boyfriend, I spoke with the Professor and we both said that SOMETHING is really really wrong in Philadelphia but WHY isnt it making NATIONAL NEWS... because they needed Batman, Superman and even Aquaman about 12 weeks ago! The place has a violence level that is surely the work of some diabolical plan hatched by the Joker, Riddler and Penguin (and trust me, I know Gotham City is supposed to be New York, but if you've been to Philly, you know the Dark Knight is somewhere chained to a wall in PHILLY.. and he needs someone to free him because fools are droppin like old women in a war zone).

FINALLY the AP is writing about this madness, FINALLY, and it really bothers me that it took them this long. PHILLY NEEDS NATIONAL attention. We all sat down and wrote and discussed the horrors of V-Tech and its run in with insanity in the form of Cho Seung-hui (I dont even care if I spelled that right) and I screamed on every board I could find that 32 people killed is something that Philly had accomplished on the 32 day of the YEAR! WHY are guns and violence suddenly so 'in vogue' to discuss when a nut loses it, when the truth is, we should have been discussing the horrors of Philadelphian streets in the second week of February!

We sat and wrote and discussed Imus and his off color comments about some nappy headed chicks at Rutgers (again, my problem was he called them 'hos' not the nappy headed part) even though Imus hasnt said anything politically correct since his second week of work. Jesse J and Ally Sharpieton headed off to Philly to get Imus fired and somehow managed to miss all of the blood in the streets. These are our 'negro' leaders and they stood and stamped in the middle of MURDER CENTRAL USA and instead of trying to march and figure out how to tone down a lot of insanity in Philly..they preferred to try to (and they succeeded) get Imus fired.

WHAT??? So if you feel like reading the article, here is the link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18278063/

I'll make no snap judgements here regarding why this story is so late because I'm happy it is finally getting AP attention because perhaps that will help Philly get attention from some people who can figure out how a society of people can erode to taking each other out at a clip of more than one a day.

NOTE at the current rate, you'd have a longer life expectancy in IRAQ.

First PHILLY POST... aka MURDER Inc. USA

Just thought I'd be responsible and, if anything, be one of the first people to be noted, quoted, whatever, for Philadelphia's amazing murder race. See as of today, Philly has literally dropped any hooks, removed any chains, and vaulted to the all time amazing rank of murder city USA.

Here is a quote from the news: "PHILADELPHIA -- Philadelphia's homicide count continues to climb.Police said the city is up to 125 homicides as of Sunday afternoon. That includes five fatal shootings in a span of less than 24 hours over the weekend.Homicide detective Ron McClane said the spike in killings could be partially due to the warm weather, which brings out more people."

ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE!!!!!!! Philly is NOT MESSING AROUND. If you know someone that you want DEAD.. simply give them a one way ticket to Philly... its the same thing as putting a gun to their face! Give them a ticket to Philly, give them a 'godfather hug' and chances are, you will NEVER see them again.. ROFL..

The "Its Official Desk"

Gggggggggggreat.. ya know, PEOPLE DIE IN PHILLY .. we are gonna re-name Philly-llujah.

Here's a headline from today: "Teen Youth Leader Shot, Paralyzed Coming Home From Work"

a snippet:
"When a group of people approached a teenager getting off the bus in Upper Darby Monday night, the teen knew something wasn?t right. So he bolted.

But even the speed of a 17-year-old couldn?t outrun the bullet, and on Tuesday, police said Leon Harris -- a youth leader who was coming home from an after-school job -- was listed in critical condition and paralyzed from the chest down.

Upper Darby police said they arrested four people -- including 15-year-old Breon Jones, who they said was the shooter -- in connection with the shooting and attempted robbery that left the 17-year-old Upper Darby senior paralyzed from the chest down."

OUTSTANDING!!!! I think, currently, Philadelphia is killin black folks at a rate of 1.03 a day!
HOLD IT DOWN PHILLY HOLD IT DOWN...